W HEN Communist leaders in other countries can accuse the reigning group in the Kremlin, and not merely those who happen to be awaiting execution, both of personal faults and of...

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By a Dutch Correspondent M ODERN weedkillers work by overfeeding the weed until it dies. The same thing can happen to a newspaper story. The facts in the story of Queen Juliana...

HE COULD NOT be bothered to speak in the Second Reading debate on his Finance Bill, and he has been a conspicuous absentee through most of the Committee Stage. Daily Herald,...

M R. CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS describes on another page the pamphlet Personal Freedom—Labour's policy 'for the Individual and Society'—as 'rather good.' This is a notably...

By Our German Correspondent Berlin I N Berlin and along the interzonal frontier on Sunday, torch- light demonstrations were arranged in an attempt to keep alight the flame of...

Y mid-June the community is usually settling down gratefully to the prospect of approaching summer holidays : disputes about wages, resentment over prices, are being put on one...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE I F the National Coal Board—or the National Closing Board, as it is now known to the miners of the anthracite field in South Wales—is not careful it is...

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construct a railway through British Guiana to the Brazilian border, a railway that would have cut through the densely jungled interior of that colony and created a useful line...

under the imprimatur of PEP, which independent, non-party organisation has for the past quarter of a century been turning out informed comment on the topics of the day. I have...

WHEN I ARRIVED to have .tea with Mr. Sharett, whO has just resigned his post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was not like most foreign or other ministers—buried with...

job of a journalist is to speed the evolution of a story through all its stages from the official denial to the official confirmation. The final stage in this process was surely...

northward through Africa. The doctrine of white su premacy is bound to create its black antithesis, and if the infection were to spread unchecked there could in the long run be...

representa- tives of University College, Dublin, in the Irish Senate—for another clue on the long, long trail towards elucidation of the truth about the Casement Diaries. In...

BY CHARLES CURRAN W HEN Parliament meets this autumn, the Govern- ment will introduce a Rent Restrictions Bill. This Bill will liberate--how far, and in what way, are matters...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS T HE Labour Party's pamphlet on Personal Freedom is rather a good pamphlet. It has, of course, its funny side. A concern for personal freedom is commonly,...

By ROBERT HANCOCK T HERE are one hundred and eighty-six Crockett days to Christmas. It is unlikely that any parent does not feel the full terror of these words. I will amplify...

SIX MEN were overcome by gas yesterday in the submarine Tapir ... a dummy mine was about to be fired into the sea when the marker °I) it sxploded too soon and gave 'off...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I WAS in Burton-on-Trent last Saturday, a much more attractive town than people who haven't been there might suppose. It is an old place, Georgianised, built of...

MY DEAR HENRY, It is very kind of you to ask me to play cricket for you against your village on August Bank Holiday. I note that you have decided to make this match an annual...

SIR, — Mr. Amis, in his review of The Outsider, recalls the render, Mr. Pickwick, as a model to emulate. In the next paragraph he lists private incomes as being one of the...

the Webbs or the London County Council. The first LCC was elected.in 1889. Beatrice and Sidney Webb were married in 1892; they first met in 1890. It is therefore hardly pos-...

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The Establishment Christopher Sykes 'Servant of the County' Margaret Cole 'The Outsider' B. J. Taylor The Dead Sea Scrolls Edmund Wilson Stage Designing Cecil Beaton...

S1R,—Your drama critic, Anthony Hartley, asks why is American stage designing so superior to ours (Spectator, June 8). Perhaps some of the following facts are contributory....

the Dead Sea Scrolls in your issue of May 18, Mr. Hugh Montefiore speaks of 'its strange inaccuracies and misleading statements,' and hopes that I will conform in future to the...

SIR,—I should like to thank Mr. J. H, Brebner , of the British Transport Commission, for his courtesy in replying to my letter. It is a relief to know that, here anyway,...

SIR,—It has been a most heart-warming (Spectator, May 4). We are quite overwhelmed information and advice. I intend to answer al l the letters personally if I can, but this...

JUNE 25, 1831 SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.—Another sale of the fragments of Sir Thomas's study took place at Christie's on Saturday last. In noticing th e sale, the Chronicle...

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Inconstant Moon ROMEO AND JULIET. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) i SEE that Mr. Walter Kerr, the dramatic critic of the New York Herald Tribune, thinks that Mercutio had...

IN putting on the six greatest Mozart operas, Glyndebourne is celebrating the bicentenary handsomely—probably more so than any other institution in the world. All six, though,...

EVERY now and again, like a good deed in a naughty world, a splendid evening of tele- vision shines out at us. Just such an evening was last Sunday. To begin with there was...

THERE was a period ten years ago when the late Frances Hodgkins and Keith Vaughan , whose work is at present on view at the .Leicester Galleries, were identified as partners in...

YIELD TO THE NIGHT. (Carlton.)—HONOUR AMONG THIEVES. (Academy.) EVER since I saw Diana Dors, then aged (1 believe) sixteen, walking off, in the top half of a pair of pyjamas,...

A Poet of the Counter- BY EVELYN WAUGH T HE century following Cranmer's consecration is unique in our history as being the only period in which any considerable numbers of...

A MIRROR FOR NARCISSUS. By Negley Farson. (Gollancz, 16s.) Mosr of us will remember deriving a certain bitter pleasure some twenty years ago when we read Mr. Farson's...

PillLOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS. By J. 0. Urnison. (O.U.P., 18s.) CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY. By Fr. Copleston. (Burns Oates, 18s.) AT the beginning of this century philosophy passed...

V. S. ParrcuErr's Collected Stories is a major book, and such a good one that it won't hurt to mention a limitation at once. 'The books we need are of the kind that act upon us...

COAST TO COAST. By James Morris. (Faber, 21s.) IT must be gratifying to newspaper editors to see their young W ell turning out good books in which they make their professiol e l...

FOR eight years now Caryl Chessman has been waiting on San Quentin's death row for execution by gassing; during this time he has found enough loopholes in the Californian law to...

CHERISH THE SEA : A History of Sail. By Jean de la Varei Translated by Mervyn Savill. (Sidgwick and Jackson, 30s AT this date when the sky above us with its windy currents...

UNINTENTIONALLY, most novels are equipped with facilities for w ithdrawal of the reader ' s attention, but not many novelists Perceive the artistic and practical necessity for a...

Liquid manure is a great help to fruit tree • providing it is not used too strong. The bes way is to 'infuse' a sack of farmyard manu in a tank or barrel of water. A pale ambe...

at present, the few upland rabbits having been eliminated, and they are the quarry of the hill fox, that lean, yellow one that trots from bracken patch to bracken patch, or...

BY PHILIDOR No. 55. J. J. P. A. SEILBERGER BLACK (13 men) WHITE (II men) WHITE to play mate in 2 mo , solution next v,s Solution to week's problem Faulkner: B-K no threat....

BY IAN NIALL NEARLY eighty years have passed since Richard Jefferies wrote about Hodge and his masters, and, in the meantime, things have changed somewhat for both. Hodge today...

I went out the other evening to look at the sky, which, for some reason, was un- /usually bright, and found the rooks were aware of it, for they were talking- away as merrily as...

NOVELS, ETC. Collins Classics Series: Barlasch of the Guard, by H. Seton Merriman (4s. 6d.); Marguerite de Valois, by Alexandre Dumas (5s. 6d.); 58 Short Stories, by 0. Henry...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 329 Report by Joyce Johnson A prize of six guineas was offered for the words of a song designed to assist as well as cheer any of the usual household...

of three common sayings with the wording slightly, and the meaning considerably, altered : e.g., 'Her whole life is warped around her children.' Entries, addressed 'Spectator...

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872 The winners of Crossword No. 891 are: MRS. D. M. PAYNE, _4 Warley Road, Hayes, Middlesex, and LADY HODSON, Fisher's..RothatfseitiNle toys, Oxon.

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IF I may offer some general advice to investors on automation it may clear away some misconceptions held in much wider circles than the City. Automation...

By CUSTOS * The excitement over the TRINIDAD OIL deal has died down but has left oil shares considerably higher on balance. The clos- ing date for the take-over at 80s. 3d. is...